YSK: It's possible to get search results from Google without the annoying 'AI' answers at the top
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    I guess YMMV, I just tried a few places around me (UK) and it found them all. You can also defiantly tap on a place to select it.

    Did you try it recently or a while ago? I know it was pretty woeful when it came out but it’s improved a whole lot over the years.

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  • YSK: It's possible to get search results from Google without the annoying 'AI' answers at the top
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    Pfttt… at least with DDG you can turn any of that stuff off with a button in a UI rather than having to make a new bookmark or fuck around with your browsers search engine.

    You can even turn the ads off if you want.

    Also, Apple Maps is totally fine, it’s not overloaded with ads like Google Maps is and it basically always finds the place I search for.

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  • Startup Replaces 6 Million Plastic Bags with Prototype Made from Corn Waste That Decomposes in 180 Days - Good News Network
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    The plastic ones (here in the UK at least) also split and fall apart, they’re better than the “standard” ones but they don’t usually last that much longer.

    Also I have a million of them because I always forget to bring them.

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  • Startup Replaces 6 Million Plastic Bags with Prototype Made from Corn Waste That Decomposes in 180 Days - Good News Network
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    Nice! With the best will in the world I always forget my standard shopping bags and I feel that the “bags for life” just replace one thin and crap lump of plastic for an overly engineered one.

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  • What the fuck happened to YouTube!?
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    I’ve never been impressed with YouTube Music, the UI feels jank and it doesn’t work on half the devices in my home (compared to Spotify which just works on everything)

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  • What the fuck happened to YouTube!?
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    Brave is run by some pretty shady people who do things like automatically adding affiliate links to your URL or collecting donations for content creators without their consent

    As far as an actual browser goes, Brave is based on Chromium so its more likely to work on every site but it has a bunch of crypto nonesense added that you probably would want to uninstall. There are more extensions that will "just work" on Chromium browsers, for example I've had issues with the Postman extension on Firefox before

    Firefox is based on Gecko, its pretty well supported and follows all the standards but there is probably a higher chance that a site might break (usually down to its pretty strict privacy defaults) there isn't really much bloat (other than a Pocket integration that you might want to turn off)

    Mozilla also feel (to me at least) like one of the last groups of Good People on the web, you can reach their manifesto to learn more.

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  • Nights in Las Vegas Are Becoming Dangerously Hot
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    Interesting article!

    Its pretty US centric though so I think one would have to contrast that against the UK and Europe which generally has homes that are brick and concrete rather than lumber, we also have (I believe) tighter insulation regulations and - just generally - vastly smaller homes.

    I think if US houses were built to European regs and sizes then the numbers would look much different.

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  • Nights in Las Vegas Are Becoming Dangerously Hot
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    It’s easier and more efficient to wrap yourself up with blankets and covers and use minimal heating (with decent home insulation) to warm yourself up than it is to cool down when you are too hot.

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    I posted this on Reddit a year or so ago but some may have missed it so I figured I’ll drop it here too :)

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    I’m having a hell of a time with my current ISP (sitting at 18 days now without a connection) and I’m having to bite my tongue every time I’m talking to them (Remember The Human and all that) Whilst the front line support are nice people and answer the phones quickly they are honestly pretty useless and they never really sound like they know what they’re talking about, also seemingly none of the departments seem particularly good about communicating what’s going on so it’s hard to get a straight and useful answer out of them. Have you ever lost it with a rep? What happened? and did it ever help push things along?

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    I’m not going to buy an Apple TV or a HomePod just for this.

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    Just checking I’ve got them all?

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    I’ve not had a good day today. The kids have been shits, my wife has winged at me for not doing something I have already done, I’m hot, tired and stressed from work and fed up of not having a good nights sleep due to my 3 year old waking us up in the middle of the night constantly. I want to rage at something but I can’t leave the house. I have access to a gaming PC, PS5 and all the movies the streaming services have to offer, my wife isn’t home so it’s just me and a couple of kids who should be asleep in the next hour or two. I need some catharsis, what would you do?

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    I’m enjoying Yuzu with my PC hooked up to my TV via HDMI, however there are times I want to back out and get back into Steam Big Picture. Is there a way to quit yuzu with just some esoteric button combination? At the moment I’m having to Remote Desktop in to hit the Esc button and going from there, which isn’t really ideal.

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    Testing links

    This is a test for multiple links in an unordered list: - [https://lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world) - [https://lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml)

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    I just checked IMDB and it has Cricket as the last episode of the season. Does anyone know if there are more episodes on the horizon or are we all done for now?

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    I’m in the very fortunate position of being made a senior at my new job and have the task of helping recruit a new Django dev to help us out. I have never had to do this before so I was wondering: 1. Does anyone have any tips for making a candidate feel comfortable? 2. What sort of questions you feel would be appropriate for a junior django dev to be able to answer?

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